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INFRALAPSARIAN

Volume 12 · 66 words · 1842 Edition

the name of a sect of predestinarians, who maintain, that God has created a certain number of men only to be damned, without allowing them the means necessary to save themselves, if they would; and they are thus called, because they hold that God's decrees were formed *infra lapsum*, after his knowledge of the fall, and in consequence thereof. The Infralapsarians are contradistinguished from the Supralapsarians.